Raychael Stine: Wonder Dawn

From the Pollock Gallery:

“Artist Bio –

Raychael Stine makes luscious, joyful paintings that integrate multiple painterly languages and approaches to mark, texture, and levels of visual legibility, allowing for playful slippage between formal and material abstraction and traditional devices of painterly representation. Stine plays with frame and the embedded structure of a dog portrait turned on its side. Color schemes come from looking at photographs, flowers, skies, dogs, hummingbirds, rainbows, postcards and more. Moves are inspired by sensual experiences like sniffing, kissing, and crying. A trompe l’oeil teardrop becomes a dog’s ear or a petal. A cosmos flower is a portal into the greater cosmos.

Raychael Stine (b. 1981, Chardon, Ohio) is a painter living and working along with her two dogs in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She received her BA at UT Dallas in 2003, and her MFA at UIC in Chicago in 2010.

Selected solo exhibitions include Emma Gray HQ, Five Car Garage (Los Angeles, CA), Eugene Binder (Marfa, TX), My Pet Ram, (Santa Barbara, CA), Richard Levy Gallery (Albuquerque, NM), Art Palace (Houston, TX), Road Agent (Dallas, TX) among others. Group exhibitions include L.A. Louver (Venice, CA) Rhona Hoffman (Chicago, IL), Smoke the Moon (Santa Fe, NM), The Valley (Taos, NM), 1969 Gallery (New York, NY), Barry Whistler Gallery (Dallas, TX), and others. Her work has been included in National shows such as NADA (NY), The Texas Biennial, NEXT at Art Chicago, and Art on Paper (NY).  “